Mycobacterial outer membranes: in search of proteins

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 109-116

  Niederweis, Michael ^a   Danilchanka, Olga ^a   Huff, Jason ^a   Hoffmann, Christian ^b   Engelhardt, Harald ^b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE LIPID; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PORIN; PROTEIN MSPA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CELL WALL; HUMANS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 77649105362     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2009.12.005     Document Type: Review

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